The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 7C. and J. Rivington, 1826 - Great Britain |
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... exists a crown , a court , splendid orders of knighthood , and an hereditary nobility ; —where there exists a fixed , permanent , landed gentry , continued in greatness and opulence by the law of primogeniture , and by a protection ...
... exists a crown , a court , splendid orders of knighthood , and an hereditary nobility ; —where there exists a fixed , permanent , landed gentry , continued in greatness and opulence by the law of primogeniture , and by a protection ...
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... exist , wealth , new in its acquisition , and precarious in its duration , can never rank first , or even near the first ; though wealth has its natural weight further than as it is balanced and even prepon- derated amongst us as ...
... exist , wealth , new in its acquisition , and precarious in its duration , can never rank first , or even near the first ; though wealth has its natural weight further than as it is balanced and even prepon- derated amongst us as ...
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... exist and have always existed under the principles of feodal tenure and succession , under imperial constitutions , grants and concessions of sovereigns , family compacts and publick treaties , made under the sanction , and some of them ...
... exist and have always existed under the principles of feodal tenure and succession , under imperial constitutions , grants and concessions of sovereigns , family compacts and publick treaties , made under the sanction , and some of them ...
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... exists any thing which very well deserves the name of government or exact police . In the states of the church , notwithstanding their strictness in banishing the French out of that country , there are not wanting the seeds of a ...
... exists any thing which very well deserves the name of government or exact police . In the states of the church , notwithstanding their strictness in banishing the French out of that country , there are not wanting the seeds of a ...
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... exists in Spain , and is not a fever , may with their property lose all the influence ne- cessary to preserve the monarchy , or , being poor and desperate , may employ whatever influence remains to them as active agents in its ...
... exists in Spain , and is not a fever , may with their property lose all the influence ne- cessary to preserve the monarchy , or , being poor and desperate , may employ whatever influence remains to them as active agents in its ...
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